To make smart cities a reality, every city should prepare a vision document for the coming decade, based on the people, public, private partnership (PPPP) model, Union Minister for Urban Development Venkaiah Naidu said on Saturday.
The model would have to be adopted for making cities more sustainable and smarter, he said here, addressing 115 Municipal Commissioners from five States who attended a consultative workshop on urban governance.
Making it clear that it was not possible for the Centre to give funds for all projects, he said the grants to the States and the municipal corporations for urban development would depend on their performance. The States and the civic bodies should maintain development projects with the help of their own assets. To establish such a system, the Centre was planning to rate cities and local bodies in credit, affordability, sanitation, open land and greenery. “Central funding will depend on the performance of the State governments and the municipal corporations. There has to be rating for both the States as well as the corporations. Who will give money without credit-worthiness,” he asked.
“Every city should prepare a vision document for the next 10 years that will envisage a comprehensive development plan. The plan should be based on the suggestions of the people,” Mr. Naidu said.
Mr. Naidu also released the first instalment of Rs. 230 crore under the Swachh Bharat mission for western and central States. The money would be used for building individual and community toilets and solid-waste management. While Maharashtra got Rs. 135 crore, Gujarat was given Rs. 40.95 crore. Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Goa got Rs. 30.79 crore, Rs. 18.81 crore and Rs. 2.59 crore respectively.
